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Eckhart [Meister] --- Mysticism --- Spiritual life --- Theological anthropology --- Anthropology, Doctrinal --- Anthropology, Theological --- Body and soul (Theology) --- Doctrinal anthropology --- Humanity, Doctrine of --- Man, Doctrine of --- Man (Theology) --- Mankind, Doctrine of --- Religion --- History --- Christianity --- Catholic Church --- History of doctrines --- Eckhart, --- Eckart, --- Eckehart, --- Eckhart, Johannes, --- Ekharti, --- Ėkkhart, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Eckhart --- Criticism and interpretation --- Theology [Doctrinal ] --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500

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Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.How did our early ancestors transcend the "idian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible. Deploying the latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium BCE), when individuals and groups in the Old World challenged the norms and beliefs of class societies ruled by kings and aristocracies. These religious prophets and renouncers never succeeded in founding their alternative utopias, but they left a heritage of criticism that would not be quenched. Bellah’s treatment of the four great civilizations of the Axial Age—in ancient Israel, Greece, China, and India—shows all existing religions, both prophetic and mystic, to be rooted in the evolutionary story he tells. Religion in Human Evolution answers the call for a critical history of religion grounded in the full range of human constraints and possibilities.

Religion. --- Human evolution --- Religion, Prehistoric. --- Theological anthropology. --- Ethnology --- Religions. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Anthropology, Doctrinal --- Anthropology, Theological --- Body and soul (Theology) --- Doctrinal anthropology --- Humanity, Doctrine of --- Man, Doctrine of --- Man (Theology) --- Mankind, Doctrine of --- Prehistoric religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religious aspects.

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. Of Bellah's brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject as well as its substance, and that is 'magisterial.' --Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the 'reflective judgment' of one of our best thinkers and writers.

Religious studies --- Religion. --- Human evolution --- -Religion, Prehistoric. --- Theological anthropology. --- Ethnology --- -Religions. --- 291.11 --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropology, Doctrinal --- Anthropology, Theological --- Body and soul (Theology) --- Doctrinal anthropology --- Humanity, Doctrine of --- Man, Doctrine of --- Man (Theology) --- Mankind, Doctrine of --- Prehistoric religion --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religious aspects. --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- Origin --- Religion, Prehistoric. --- Religions. --- 291.11 Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Theological anthropology --- Religious aspects --- Human evolution - Religious aspects --- Ethnology - Religious aspects

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The term religion is indispensable to the subject matter of both religious studies and theology. Many approaches attempt a reductive, essentialist, functionalist, or other type of unifying definition, but these approaches tend to rest on various, often controversial sets of presuppositions. Indeed, it seems impossible to overcome the vast plurality of understandings of religion as the academic fields that deal with religion splinter and proliferate, thereby inhibiting the rational treatment of a very important dimension of modern society. The present volume undertakes an intense interdisciplinary examination of a seminal modern text that religious scholars agree helped spawn religious studies and modern theology as we know it, namely Schleiermacher's Reden über die Religion, which lays out the most important and controversial themes under discussion by theologians and religious studies scholars: first, the significance of emotion for the understanding of religion; second, the role of imagination and religious utterances in religious belief; third, the importance of religion for the social world; and fourth, the political implications of religion.

1 SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST --- 291.1 --- Filosofie. Psychologie--SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- 1 SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST Filosofie. Psychologie--SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST --- Philosophical theology --- Theological anthropology --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Anthropology, Doctrinal --- Anthropology, Theological --- Body and soul (Theology) --- Doctrinal anthropology --- Humanity, Doctrine of --- Man, Doctrine of --- Man (Theology) --- Mankind, Doctrine of --- Religion --- History --- Doctrines --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich, --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich Ernst Daniel --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst --- Influence

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Service (Theology) --- Theological anthropology --- Catholic Church --- History of doctrines --- Bérulle, Pierre de, --- Oratoire de France --- History --- 248 DE BERULLE, PIERRE --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--DE BERULLE, PIERRE --- Anthropology, Doctrinal --- Anthropology, Theological --- Body and soul (Theology) --- Doctrinal anthropology --- Humanity, Doctrine of --- Man, Doctrine of --- Man (Theology) --- Mankind, Doctrine of --- Religion --- Diakonia (Theology) --- Bérulle, Pierre de --- Communauté de l'Oratoire de France --- Congregatio Oratorii Jesus et Mariae Immaculatae --- Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus and Mary --- Oratoire de Jésus-Christ et de Marie Immaculée --- Oratoire (France) --- Oratorio de Gesù e di Maria Immacolata --- Prêtres de l'Oratoire de France --- Theological anthropology - Catholic Church - History of doctrines - 17th century --- Bérulle, Pierre de, - 1575-1629